Model for Mobile Application Development on Traveling Guide: A General Proposal

The increase in tourist visits has an impact on providing information on tourist destinations and all related to tourism trips. The information is still inadequate, especially about the purpose of tourist attractions and accommodation or infrastructure for tourist travel. The lack of information will impact the decline in tourist visits to the province of South Sumatra. The efforts that have been made by the government of South Sumatra Province does not maximize. In this research, we made a proposed model based on a mobile application in the travel guide in the Government of South Sumatra. This model will help the Government in making policies in digital tourism. We use mobile smartphone media that are currently used by more than 90% of the people in searching for information related to tourism. Our proposed approach utilizes the stages in mobile development, in general, using the Mobile-D development method, the overall architectural model, and configuration. The result is the application of the model to the use. The implementation was carried out to see how important the model could be developed and implemented in South Sumatra.